Brunel's Other Bridge

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Brunel Swivel Bridge Project Photos September 2015

This month was spent welcoming visitors to the bridge

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• Saturday 12 September
• Sunday 20 September

Saturday 12 September

Doors Open Day: A good stream of visitors all day and the total head count was 222 (compared to 158 in 2014) and many signed support sheets. A sunny day fortunately

Photographic exhibition, and the plates were up with volunteers on hand. We were pleased to have three new volunteers on hand	David Greenfield gave talks
	Mike Bone enjoying a joke with a bunch of cyclists who one day may use the bridge
signing the support sheet	groups of people clustered round different volunteers showing what we have been up to

Sunday 20 September

26 historic structures engineers from all over the country came to visit. The trip was organised by David Greenfield and Andrew Swift. It was good to see Andrew Neale the docks engineer, George Waite the riveter, Graham Laucht the Brunel historian again who all taked to the visitors about their work. Bob Watkins talked about his drawings, Mike Bone talked about funding, Maggie and others showed them the pintle and turntable. We were also treated to two swings of the Plimsoll bridge and to the Pride of Bristol going through the locks on a loveley sunny day. We could have spent all day there, but the visitors all had trains to catch. We were privileged to have Julia Elton visiting (who hosted us to a dinner at Clevedon Court the previous night. Long standing member of the Newcomen Society and president from 2005-2007, antiquarian bookseller specialising in the history of engineering from the seventeenth century)

David Neale (retired Docks engineer) looking very pleased with progress	Bob pinning up his drawings
Maggie setting up the exhibition	Graham showing his research to David
The group getting an introduction	Bob showing some the bridge
Mike Bone talking to one group while everyone else scattered around being shown features	Julia been shown the rivet hammer by George Waite
Julia Elton looking pensive	Mike Bone showing Julia the turntable. Maggie then showed her the pintle
more turned up and took photos	quite a gathering in the end. All had to get off as the Plimsoll bridge swung, due to the limited height of the Plimsoll bridge above the Brunel bridge
Pride of Bristol going through the locks with the Matthew. The 2 bridge swings and special boats were a bonus

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